Reversing the Missionary Position: Learning Solidarity on Mayan Time

Reversing the Missionary Position: Learning Solidarity on Mayan Time is a documentary 20 years in the making, with footage from Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico that chronicles the powerful resistance by Mayan peoples to capitalism and militarism.

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Sembramos, Comemos, Sembramos: Learning Solidarity on Mayan Time

Jeff Smith, producer of Reversing the Missionary Position, wrote a book exploring the concept of “learned solidarity” and the idea that after standing with the people in Guatemala/Chiapas that it is imperative that we work here in the United States to change the policies that make it nearly impossible to achieve lasting change in their countries. Smith contrasts this form of solidarity with dogmatic religion or political ideologies, with learned solidarity based on real principles of democracy, equality and mutual respect, not just paying lip service to it.